Weeks of Scientific Wisdom

Thursday, March 9, 7 p.m.
Thomas Hinckley, UW professor of forest resources, presents a lecture titled “Climbing, Research and Teaching” as a part of the 2006 College of Forest Resources Series: Sustaining our Northwest World. The lecture is free, but advance registration is required.
University of Washington, Kane Hall, Room 120.

Thursday, March 9, 7 p.m.
The Institute for Children's Environmental Health hosts Jonathan Patz, associate professor of environment studies and population health sciences at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. He'll be talking about the relationships between climate change, land use and infectious disease in “Climate Change: Is Our Health at Stake?”
Town Hall. Tickets are $14/$15 at the door, with a reception to follow.

Monday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
This next installment of the Seattle Science Lecture series brings William T. Vollmann, winner of a National Book Award for fiction, to Town Hall. Seattlest is particularly excited about this lecture, because we're unabashed suckers for fictionalized accounts of sixteenth and sevententh century science. That statement is really true. Jesus, we're dorks. Vollman will speak on his personal experience digging into Copernicus’s “De revolutionibus” (1543), based from his recent book Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street. Tickets are $5 at the door only.

Thursday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Kolbert traveled hither (Alaska) and yon (Greenland) to dig into the debate on global warming. Her 3-part series is unfolding in the musty oldtimer pages of the New Yorker, and you can get a peek at her conclusions in her lecture presented by the Seattle Science Lectures at Town Hall.
Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street. Tickets are $5 at the door.

Friday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.
Seattle writer and ornithological researcher Lyanda Linda Haupt will be reading at Elliot Bay Books from her new book Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks. Her work is is based on Darwin’s diaries, correspondence, journals, and pocket notebooks.
Elliot Bay Books. Free admission.

Monday, March 27, 7 p.m.
Local, and occasionally national, luminary scientists mix it up with us common folk and a few drunks in the monthly Science on Tap series. In this installment of the brain-and-brew event, fearless audience members will convene as teams, competing for prizes as they answer trivia questions about fuel cell technology. Did we mention there's prizes? And yes, booze.
Pub at Ravenna Third Place Books, basement. Free and open to the public.